There was a gathering of IBM I – 1000 people in Las Vegas in April of this year.
Original Message:
Sent: 5/8/2023 3:36:00 AM
From: Lionel Clavien
Subject: RE: Is the AS/400 Dead?
This is exactly why initiatives like COMMON Europe NextGen have been launched recently... I don't know if COMMON US or similar UG have something similar done/planned.
But there ARE new people interested in the platform, and young ones. Look at some of the IBM Champions. ;)
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Lionel Clavien, PhD
IBM Champion for Power
CTO & Co-founder
InnoBoost SA
Morges, Switzerland
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri May 05, 2023 10:35 AM
From: Eric Gibb
Subject: Is the AS/400 Dead?
This is good news to hear newer development technologies are being utilized on the IBM i / Power Systems.
Along the lines of the health and longevity of IBM i, I am curious what others have been seeing in regards to the support of this platform. Each year more technical resources are being lost to retirement. The administrative expertise is dwindling with no apparent young blood interested in IBM i. Combine that with limited educational opportunities how does this impact the future of the most stable hardware and OS combination available on the market.
Have others seen the same?
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Eric Gibb
Technical Team Lead / Principal Engineer
Precisely Inc.
Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 04, 2023 05:00 AM
From: Adrian Tully
Subject: Is the AS/400 Dead?
I'm just writing a piece on this so it's great timing and i'll share a couple of bits from my unfinished script.
According to the ITIC 2022 Global Server Hardware report the Power platform is still the most reliable server available.
I think someone else has mentioned the TCO, which is better than any of the competition.
Businesses have invested hundreds of thousands of hours into the development and testing of their applications which provide unique business advantage.
Free format RPG and tools like Merlin and VS Code have opened up the development of the IBMi applications to non RPG programmers.
in short No it's not dead, and if we can stop calling it the AS/400 at the board level and talk about our modern IBMi (the same hardware that runs watson I think) then we might start convincing the money controllers to keep investing.
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Adrian Tully
Original Message:
Sent: Fri January 21, 2022 05:23 AM
From: Abel Willium
Subject: Is the AS/400 Dead?
Hey everyone I want to know that is as400 dead, please explain in brief?
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Abel Willium
Marketing Head
Integrative Systems
Itasca
08664687974
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